I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.